I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1180: United States idol
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After Gates left, Eric and Chris and others discussed the matter just by phone before pushing the door into Carmen Case ’s bedroom.
The girl was lying on the bed looking at a document, feeling that Eric came in, turned her head and smiled at the man, saying: "It's noisy."
"That's the kind of person," Eric came over and lay sideways next to Carmen Case, reaching for the blonde hair of the girl and pulling out a headphone into his ear, saying, "What are you looking at?"
The earphone cable is a bit short, and Carmen moved his body towards Eric, saying: "Versace's endorsement contract."
With the great success of the Dior golden goddess advertising, Carmen has become the fastest growing supermodel in the past six months, and even got the most important September cover of the recent United States version of "VOGUE". Various types of endorsements are naturally coming. .
Eric heard Versace ’s name and asked casually: "Women's clothing or other product lines?"
"Women's clothing," Carmen handed the contract to Eric, with an inquiry in his eyes, said: "Paul said I can actually wait, maybe I can get the six women's endorsements. However, Versace made The conditions are also very good. "
The so-called Big Six refers to the six luxury brands of Dior, Prada, Chanel, LV, Gucci, and CK, and is also known as the Six Big Blue Blood. Versace, Givenchy, Hermes and other brands are slightly inferior.
Eric took over the contract and turned over two pages, saying: "Actually, it depends on what your pursuit is. If you want style, you will definitely make less money. If you want to make money, you can only put it down. The more high-end brands are more stingy in endorsement fees. "
"Then I will pick it up."
Speaking with ease in such a pretentious tone, she looked at the man beside her carefully again. I hope that I can make more money, but I don't want him to be regarded as a woman who only knows how to make money.
Unconsciously, she finds that she cares more and more about his views on herself.
Eric looked at the girl ’s expression, with a deep smile on her lips, and said: "In fact, Versace's style is still very suitable for you. The average girl can't support their design style with exaggerated lines and strong design. , Then you can pick a few more pieces to show me. "
Realizing that Eric saw through her thoughts, she shy away from the man's eyes with embarrassment.
Smallly experienced the chase game you followed, Eric finally reached out with Carmen ’s face and turned to herself, looking at the girl with a small accused expression like you are not following the rules, saying: "So, you are sure Already know, I will buy IMG and Elite soon. "
With the girl ’s stubborn nature, Eric knows that if she does n’t take the initiative, she wo n’t ask about it anyway.
Hearing Eric say this, her eyes flashed, but she didn't speak, just waiting for the man to continue.
Eric was suddenly attracted by the girl ’s beautiful sapphire eyes, reached out, and carefully crossed the edge of her long eyelashes, feeling a row of soft brushes sweeping quickly at his fingertips.
She dismissed her short lips pretendingly, still feeling the sudden intimacy of the man motionlessly. When Eric withdrew her hand, she leaned forward and probing, and finally kissed the man's lips.
In September, when the four major fashion weeks were held, New York Fashion Week was over. Carmen flew to London the next day, and the two did not talk about IMG and Elite.
In fact, the size of WM is ultimately very small. Even if Eric wins both IMG and Elite, it will not limit the development of WM.
In comparison, Ford, DNA and other professional model Brokerage Firm in the same industry feel pressure on Eric to acquire IMG and Elite at the same time. These are the first-line professional model Brokerage Firm, which has been firmly suppressed by IMG and Elite. Now, there is a huge Firefly system. With the support of media resources, it will be even harder for them to get ahead.
However, although it was inevitable that Eric acquired two major Brokerage Firm at the same time in the media, until the end of Eric signed an equity transfer contract with IMG and Elite shareholders, due to various considerations or fears, none People jumped out and openly opposed this matter.
Of course, in order to avoid unnecessary disputes in the future, after buying the two big Brokerage Firms, Eric also quickly processed some agency contracts involving Hollywood.
Many professional model often have Actor Brokerage Firm in Hollywood, just like Diane · Kruger. In the past two years, her achievements on Actor have surpassed the professional model career. For artists with such double-line development of professional model and Actor, the two major Brokerage Firms have also begun to draft relevant contracts in order to rationalize the agency clauses that may conflict.
Moreover, Eric is not too worried about disputes in this respect.
After all, unless someone deliberately troubles, he does n’t believe that any professional model will jump out of trouble regardless of his career. Whether it is in the fashion industry or Hollywood, with the current strength of the Firefly system, even if it is supermodel, Eric wants to let the other party completely disappear from the industry, it is absolutely a breeze.
The two major Brokerage Firms were won. Eric's affairs on the New York side were basically over. He flew back to Hollywood in mid-September.
At the same time, after talking with Eric again, Microsoft quickly launched a counterattack to the Firefly system, requesting Yahoo to stop the continued promotion of the mini music store equipment on the grounds of the alleged infringement of the Microsoft patent on the operating system of the mini music store equipment .
However, compared with a series of core patents held by the Firefly system, the evidence of the lawsuit filed by Microsoft is only some fringe patents related to software design.
The difference between the two is equivalent to the foundation bearing and porcelain decoration of a house. A house, without foundation and load-bearing, will certainly not be able to be built smoothly, but the decoration such as external porcelain tiles, it seems irrelevant. Even if it is not appropriate, it can be replaced at any time.
Therefore, the Microsoft lawsuit is not much offensive to the Firefly system at all.
On the contrary, without the core patent authorization of the Firefly system, At-Home can only shut down its own search engine tools and advertising distribution system, and the Microsoft Zune player is not destined to be successfully sold.
Furthermore, in the face of the Microsoft lawsuit, Firefly also responded immediately.
Firefly Investment has publicly announced that it will spend 500 million USD to increase its shareholding in Apple Inc. to about 30%.
In the past two years, although with the return of Jobs, the operation of Apple Inc. has improved, but overall it is still unsatisfactory, and the market value has never exceeded 3billion USD. With the Nasdaq crash some time ago, the market value of Apple Inc. once again hit the bottom of 2billion USD.
Therefore, when the Firefly investment publicly announced the news, it had easily absorbed about 7% of the stock from the open market again, making the share of Firefly investment in Apple Inc. increased to 19%. Moreover, these 7% or so stocks only cost Firefly to invest in 150 million USD.
Although after the news was announced, the stock price of Apple Inc. rose sharply, Jobs was like a big enemy, directly called Eric to inquire about the intention of Firefly investment, and habitually threatened to resign, requiring Firefly investment not to intervene in the management of Apple Inc. .
Unless the necessary moment, Eric does not have any thoughts to intervene in Apple Inc..
However, Eric did not conceal its intention from Jobs, admitting that the Firefly system requires Apple patent support for the operating system. Although very dissatisfied, Jobs agreed to license a series of patents granted to the Windows system to Firefly Electronics.
Actually, Eric is not without thinking about continuing to support Apple to follow its original trajectory. However, after careful consideration, Eric gave up this idea. The root cause is still Jobs.
Jobs is a very talented person, which is beyond doubt, but at the same time, the stubbornness of Jobs will greatly affect the smooth development of Apple.
In the original historical development track of Apple, Jobs can be said to be two ‘away’ Apple, one expelled from Board of Directors, and one due to death. The obvious fact is that although Jobs has laid a solid foundation for Apple twice, Apple's profit broke out after Jobs 'Leave'.
Take the previous iPod series player, Apple released this product in 2001, but due to the Jobs ’s stubborn closed strategy, only allowing iPod to run on the Apple operating system, so wasted nearly Four years.
Until 2005, Jobs finally failed to agree with Board of Directors and the management, and announced that the iPod was opened to the Windows system, and the sales of this product finally began to break out. But at that time, with the popularity of portable electronic devices such as music phones, the iPod had long missed the best opportunity for expansion, and even began to decline.
As for the later iPhone, it is not hard to imagine that if Jobs did not die, with his stubborn personality, Apple will definitely not make such a flexible change under the situation that the trend of large-screen smartphones is becoming more and more obvious. The iPhone is likely to continue to adhere to the 3.5-inch small screen strategy.
So, in the era of rapid development of smart phones, the industry obviously will not give Apple another four years to change its concept like the iPod. Once the Apple mobile phone continues to adhere to the small screen strategy, the Android system later came to the top, and the final result can only be that the iPhone mobile phone, like other Apple products, has gradually become a high-end niche electronic product.
In the final analysis, Jobs's character is destined to succeed, but also destined to fail.
As Eric returns to Los Angeles, the TV series autumn stage in 1999 also opens.
ABCTV Network's main theme this fall is the "United States Idol" which has been carefully prepared for a year.
Speaking of this, although the United Kingdom version of "Pop Idol" has been successful, in the beginning, ABC Group executives were not so confident about whether "United States Idol" could adapt to the market environment of North America. Some executives also proposed that the first season of "United States Idol" be broadcast in the summer season in June. In this way, even if the program ratings fail, it will not cause too much loss.
Eric also knows that the traditional four major public TV Station has become more and more conservative, which is actually mainly because TV Network executives are responsible for the loss of ratings, after all, the failure of a key promotion program often means that the The TV Network in the next two quarters has a sluggish audience at a certain time.
Of course, Eric will not accept the conservative strategy of TV Network executives, but insist on putting "United States Idol" in the autumn file. Since Big Boss personally clapped, the voice of opposition is much less.
In any case, even if it fails, Eric will bear the responsibility. Even if you want to pull out an executive back pot, if you want to back the pot for BOSS, there are really not many people who are willing to do so.
However, the ratings of this singer's selection of Reality Show ultimately exceeded the expectations of many people, even better than Eric imagined.
The episode premiered on September 16, due to full publicity in advance, the number of viewers of the episode has exceeded 19million. Moreover, the subsequent first episode of ratings data did not show a traditional downward trend, but went up all the way.
In the end, the average audience of the first episode of "United States Idol" reached 22.3 million, and the ratings near the end of the first episode were as high as 26 million.
Although it failed to create the original miracle of the two Reality Show of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and "Survivor", in the recent years, the continuous expansion of the cable TV Network continued to eat away the public TV Network market share, the number of people who opened the first broadcast can exceed 20 million The Reality TV Show is definitely very successful.
At the same time, the success of "United States Idol" also made up for the loss of popularity of ABCTV Network due to the end of 《Friends》.
Although the ratings of the two popular episodes of "Survivor" and "ER" have also begun to decline in recent years, the rise of "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "United States Idol" is also enough to support ABC ratings to the forefront of four Major TV Networks position.
With the release of "United States Idol", the popular autumn drama series of the entire Firefly system TV platform have also begun to return to the top grade.
LifetimeTV Station's three main hits "America's Next Top Model", "Sex and the City" and "Project Runway" all maintain very eye-catching ratings. Metro Goldwyn Mayer's several TV Station "Desperate Housewives", "Beverly Wife" and "Beverly Girl" series also performed well. After FFMTV Station's "Black Road Family" returns in the new season, it has once again created a new high rating.
In addition, the showtimeTV Station new drama "Shameless", highly anticipated by the Firefly system, was finally released on September 21.
The number of viewers for the premiere of Shameless is finally 1.7 million. As a TV series collection of toll cable stations, such ratings have reached a satisfactory level.
Furthermore, Shameless also quickly became the focus of criticism.
Be aware that before Shameless, the mainstream episodes of North America TV Station basically reflected the life of the mainstream middle class of United States, and the number of episodes directly depicting the state of the low-level people in the United States society is extremely low. less.
At the same time, the shameless descriptions of the shameless little people who have almost no traditional right and wrong concepts for the survival of the underlying people have a very strong impact on many people.
Perhaps this performance is too violent. Although the critics' evaluation of the series itself is mainly positive, most film critic also have an undisguised critical attitude towards the values expressed by Shameless .